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Lenoir Police have made an arrest in connection with the death of a Lenoir man, found near a camp site behind Lenoir Mall two weeks ago. Just after dark last night, 24-year old Cory Travis Vanover of Morganton was arrested, charged with First Degree Murder in the death of Wade Michael Taylor Jr.,
28, listing a Woodsway Lane Lenoir address. Vanover is being held without bond pending a first court appearance today in Lenoir, but other details of the case have not been released. Investigators used the results of an autopsy to determine that Taylor was murdered, and now have made an arrest in the case.